How to use greater than operator with date?

Question

No idea what is going on here. Here is the query, right from phpMyAdmin:

SELECT * FROM `la_schedule` WHERE \'start_date\' >\'2012-11-18\';

Answer 1

In your statement, you are comparing a string called start_date with the time.
If start_date is a column, it should either be

 
  SELECT * FROM `la_schedule` WHERE start_date >'2012-11-18';
 

(no apostrophe) or

SELECT * FROM `la_schedule` WHERE `start_date` >'2012-11-18';

(with backticks).

Hope this helps.